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HOLTVILLE — Thirteen persons died in a two-vehicle crash at Norrish Road and Highway 115 near Holtville Tuesday morning. California Highway Patrol Border Division Chief Omar Watson at a Tuesday morning press conference said the fatalities were all from 25 occupants in a maroon Ford Expedition SUV that was struck on its left side by a semi-truck hauling two gravel trailers at the intersection about 6:15 a.m. Watson said that at the time of the crash, the semi was traveling north on Highway ...

HOLTVILLE — At least 13 people, 10 of them Mexican nationals, were killed on Tuesday when a tractor-trailer slammed into an SUV crammed with 25 adults and…

Los Angeles: A collision between a big rig and an SUV carrying more than two dozen people near the US-Mexico border Tuesday morning killed at least 13 and injured several others, officials said. Both the number of people travelling in the SUV and the number of victims was unclear. Judy Cruz, the emergency department director at El Centro Regional Medical Centre, said 28 people were in the vehicle. But Arturo Platero, a spokesman for the California Highway Patrol’s El Centro office, said there...

By Bing Guan and Sharon Bernstein HOLTVILLE, Calif. (Reuters) - At least 13 people, 10 of them Mexican nationals, were killed on Tuesday when a tractor-trailer slammed into an SUV crammed with 25 adults and children on a dusty Southern Californian road near the U.S.-Mexico border, officials said. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents opened an investigation into whether human smuggling was involved, an agency spokeswoman said in a statement hours later. Handmade wooden crosses st...

At least 13 people were dead in California after an SUV with 25 passengers and a semitruck collided about 10 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border.

Authorities are investigating whether human smuggling was involved when an SUV packed with 25 people slammed into a tractor-trailer in a remote Imperial County desert, killing the driver and 12 passengers near the Mexican border.

Updated: 3:00 PM PST, March 02, 2021 The SUV was carrying 25 people when it collided with a gravel truck in Imperial County, California, authorities said. At least 13 are dead after a SUV ferrying 25 people collided with a gravel truck in a farming area of Californias Imperial County, authorities said. A dozen others were being treated at area hospitals following Tuesdays early morning crash. The horrific incident occurred at State Route 115 and Norrish Road, just north of the Mexican border,...

Authorities said they are still unsure what brought the SUV into the path of the truck and why so many people were inside of it. Watson, who heads the agency’s border division, said the scene was “chaotic” when fire crews and law enforcement agents arrived about 10 minutes after the crash; it was not expected to be cleared until late evening because of the ongoing investigation. By late afternoon, the CHP was still working with the coroner’s office to identify passengers. Advertisem...

At least 13 people, 10 of them Mexican nationals, were killed on Tuesday when a tractor-trailer slammed into an SUV crammed with 25 adults and children on a dusty Southern Californian road near the U.S.-Mexico border, officials said.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials said they believe the victims killed in the collision in Southern California ...